Pre-reading Questions 1. What does the\Green revolution refer to? 2. Why did various writers predict that there would be widespread famine? 3. Name some countries with serious food shortages 4. What is \miracle rice?

1. In what physical condition is the writer's grandmother? with her? 3. Is she happy Why or why not? 4 Are retirement homes all bad? 5. What did the writer's mother decide to do when Grandma could not live on her own? 6. How are elderly people treated in many cultures? 7. Why are old people unhappy in a nursing home? 8. What is the writer's opinion concerning the treatment of aging people? 9. What is your own opinion concerning the old people n general?

Questions: on the text 1:Whydoestheauthor.comparea language with a living, organism? 2.Which: language family does English belong to? 3. What: is., it\:: causes: :. the languages. within a: single language family. to become different from one another? Does this, happen to one particular. language:: in.different periods of time. too

Questions on the text Did people have to attend on machines hundreds of years ago? What happened to industry about a hundred years ago? What is the operation of automatic machines based on?

Introduction Course: English Grammar Lecturer: Rongcheng Pan Object: English Major05-5&6 Textbook: English Grammar Course (Fourth Edition) by Zhang Zhenbang, Shanghai Foreign

修饰(一):词组中的修饰语 修饰”( Modification)是扩展基本句型使之成为 生动的、能表达丰富思想的重要语法手段。 我们知道,基本句型多半是一些不带修饰语的 骨架,而实际使用中的句子则像活人一样总都 是有血有肉的,带有各式各样的修饰语,比如 说, Rain fell这样一个句式,从结构上看,是个 完整的SV句型,但它并没有表达多少意思

定义 直接引语:直接引用别人的原话,并在原话前后加引 号例 : He said:\ It is too late.\ 间接引语:用自己的话转述别人的话,多数以宾语从 句的形式构成。 He said it was too late

A conditional sentence (or \conditional\ for short) is commonly composed of two parts: conditional clause main clause. Despite the many possible sequences of verb forms in conditionals, the following four types represent perhaps the commonest and the most useful ones:

Grammar is the structural system of a language. The grammar of English is organized into five ranks: the sentence, the clause, the phrase, the word and the morpheme. Each rank is composed of one or more than one grammatical unit of the immediate lower unit. A full sentence can generally be segmented rank by rank down to its smallest constituents---the morphemes

定语从句/关系分句(Attributive/Relative Clauses )在句中做定语,修饰一个名词或代词,被修 饰的名词词组或代词即先行词。定语从句通常 出现在先行词之后,由关系词(关系代词或关 系副词)引出。 关系代词有:who,whom, whose,that, which等 关系副词有:when, where,why等